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(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femcNortheastern States Research Cooperative funderUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service Northern Research StationleadFine litter was collected with baskets that were placed in the center of each subplot in both treatment and control plots.Forest Ecosystem Monitoring CooperativeJohnCampbellprincipalInvestigatorWallyShortlecontentProviderPaulSchabergcontentProviderLindsayRustadprincipalInvestigatorUsing methods like those used to make snow at ski areas, researchers successfully created ice glaze on tree branches (remarkably similar to conditions during the Northeast’s 1998 Ice Storm) over a large northern hardwood forest area. This novel experimental tool will allow scientists to study controlled icing events of different intensity and frequency in different forest types. Researchers also held a workshop with ecosystem scientists, climatologists, physical scientists, computer modelers, social scientists, and industry experts to define the state-of- knowledge on ice storms and examine the nature and extent of these storms in the Northeast. In addition, they developed machine-learning algorithms which allow computer models to identify unique ice storm climatology in past weather systems to better predict ice storms in the future.Fine LitterFine litter was collected with baskets that were placed in the center of each subplot in both treatment and control plots.VMC.1108.2500mySQL/femc/data/archive/project/experimental-ice-glazing/dataset/ice-storm-fine-litter2010-12-012011-04-01basketbasketBasket ID Numberintg_C_m2g_C_m2Calculated carbon weightdecimalmeterrealg_per_basketg_per_basketWeight in basketdecimalmeterrealg_per_m2g_per_m2Weight after oven dried decimalmeterrationalplotplotPlot Numberint